
Researchers, professionals and graduate students working in the fields of speech technology, linguistics, phonetics and acoustics, and also those working in the fields of psychology and physiology of speech and hearing with applications in medical science
This book assembles major writings in speech production and phonetics of the pioneering Gunnar Fant, along with his more recent work on speech prosody. The book reviews the stages of the speech chain, covering production, speech data analysis and speech perception. 19 selected articles are grouped in 6 chapters, including a historical outline plus Speech production and synthesis; The voice source; Speech analysis and features; Speech perception; Prosody.